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And the bodies watched him. "Faith, he's keen," said the Provost. "But what on earth has Wilson ta'en auld Jamieson's house and barn for? They have stude empty since I kenna whan," quoth Alexander Toddle, forgetting his English in surprise. "They say he means to start a business! He's made some bawbees in Aiberdeen, they're telling me, and he thinks he'll set Barbie in a lowe wi't."
"I am a Respectable Whaup," said the bird, "and I kenna why ye have broken in on our family gathering. Once in a hundred years we foregather for decent conversation, and here we are interrupted by a muckle, sweerin' man." Now the shepherd was a fellow of great sagacity, yet he never thought it a queer thing that he should be having talk in the mid-moss with a bird.
"Yes," said Bill, "I've give me word as a mahn," and he marched away, while the Widow fled sobbing to her room. That was the end of Kenna, so far as Jim was concerned.
He agreed to return to within a safe distance of Bar Harbour, and, through Patrick Kenna, let Trenfield know of the discovery of the boat and get him to help them to fit her out properly. Oars and a mast they could easily make, had they the tools, and a sail could also be obtained through either Ruth or her father, who could get them enough coarse calico for the purpose.
When ye hear her when ye hear folk, he corrected himself briskly, 'call me a coward, and one that betrayed the Lord, and I kenna what else, just mind it was to keep a bed to ye to sleep in and a bite for ye to eat. On guard! he cried, and the lesson proceeded again till they were called to supper. 'There's another thing yet, said Francie, stopping his father.
Track-laying commenced south of Kosheh on the 9th of October, and the whole work was carried forward with feverish energy. As it progressed, and before it was completed, the reach of the river from the Third Cataract to Kenna ceased to be navigable.
"I kenna weel hoo it cud be for waur," said Malcolm, who did not yet, even from his recollection of the things Miss Horn had said, comprehend what worst threatened him.
"For that, he maun be pleast wi' ye!" "I dinna think nane aboot that; I jist tak my life i' my han', and awa' wi' 't til Him; and he's never turned his face frae me yet. Eh, sir! think what it would be gien ever he did!" "But we maunna think o' him ither than he would hae us think." "That's hoo I'm aye hingin aboot his door, luikin for him." "Weel, I kenna what to mak o' ye!
Gien I had been, I wadna be upo' sic an eeran' this day. For nigh twenty lang years 'at her 'an me keepit hoose thegither, till she dee'd i' my airms, never a day was she oot o' my sicht, or ance " The marquis leaped rather than started to his feet, exclaiming, "What in the name of God do you mean, woman?" "I kenna what ye mean, my lord.
Then bestriding his steed with some difficulty, he added, "Dinna ye think poor Jeanie's een wi' the tears in them glanced like lamour beads, Mr. Saddletree?" "I kenna muckle about women's een, Laird," replied the insensible Bartoline; "and I care just as little.
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